*Edited to add: DLYCW has officially started! You have until the 14th to post. My post is below. Here's Sarah's
Host Post, and Pheris's
Host Post.
G'day chaps! Sorry I dropped off the face of the blogosphere for the last few days. You can blame redox reactions and electrochemistry (which is so a word. Stupid SpellCheck.)
To get on to the purpose of this post, Sarah (author of
Comfy Sweaters, Writing, and Fish), Pheris (author of
The Word Asylum), and I have teamed up and created Dress Like Your Character Week (DLYCW for short). What is this, you ask? To put it succinctly, DLYCW is a week in which participants dress up like one (or more) of their characters and post pictures of themselves. Pretty cool, huh? Sarah's blog will be hosting, and she will have a host post where participants can comment to leave a link to their DLYCW post. Not only will this event be full of fun and creativity, but the sharing of links has the potential to increase participants' blogs' readership.
DLYCW starts on May 7th and ends on May 14th. Participants can post anytime during that week.
If you would like to participate, here are the rules:
- Please refrain from nudity, inappropriate captions and poses in your photos
- In your post, please link to the host's post (and don't forget to leave a link to your post/blog on it)
- You do not have to show your face if you don't want to (Sarah's host post has a link to a website where you can pixelate or blur out your face)
- Feel free to invite other participants privately to ensure they are comfortable with participation
- In your post, tell us how your writing changed when you dressed up, or did something else daring (did you use an accent? We'd love to know!)
- Spread the word! Tell other people about DLYCW.
Here I am dressed up as my character Tori Ingles, from my current work in progress,
The Black Cat Diamond: A Lizzie Evans Mystery. Tori is a guitarist in Lizzie's brother, Tyler's band. Originally she was a plain Goth, but then she evolved, and now she dresses herself in Goth versions of what the typical country star would wear.
This outfit consists of: the plaid shirt (which is actually the wrong color. It's a bit too pink for Tori), the jeans, the boots (Remember when I said I had a pair of boots I could channel 3ish characters from? Those would be they), a chain necklace, and ear-threads with danglies at the end.
Seeing myself in Goth makeup freaks me out. I don't wear any makeup, except on special occasions. Though I do admit I rather like the purple highlights. Very Sadie Kane.
The one thing I wish I had was
this dragon earring, but alas, it was more than outside my budget. The person that made it has a bunch of dragons, and
this cool spiderweb (my second choice for Tori). Oh well, maybe someday.
My writing didn't really change or anything when I dressed up. I did walk a bit differently, but I always do when I wear those boots. When the pictures were being taken, I didn't allow myself to smile, 'cause Tori wouldn't, which was surprisingly weird. Lily, the queen of smiling, not smile? Very odd.
This was lots of fun! Be sure to check out the other DLYCW posts!
My hair was the trickiest part. I had it up in a ponytail and then flipped it up toward my face so that I got that spiky look. It kept slipping, as you can see, but it worked in the end.
